Sadism (a.k.a. “Upping the Stakes”): The Heart of Every Drama
I’ve had a primitive incarnation of this meta, which was supposed to be the twin of this meta, festering on my hard drive for years. Because we’re encroaching on the end of yet another season, I thought it would be fun to dust it off and finish it. The original premise (from early S3 … doh!) was about upping the stakes in fiction and how SPN does
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Thank you! That was a fun meta to write. It's always interesting to look at past meta and if any predictions held through subsequent seasons. I think that the small amount of predictive stuff in there was vague enough (and wasn't too surprising) that it held up through subsequent seasons.
by use of sacrificial gambit
Yes, wonderful point about the Winchester gambit! It's ironic that even though the Winchesters purport to love each other so much that they'll do "anything" (including sacrifice themselves to "save" the other), they fail to realize the how much they're hurting the ones they're trying to save by their leaving them (dying).
Your mention of Mary sacrificing unborn Sam to save John in 4x03 just made me realize that that could possibly be seen by Sam as a great betrayal. Not only was virtually motherless and doesn't have any of his own memories of Mary, his mother essentially bartered his life away. O_o Talk about self-worth issues.
Sam finally moves from being the ( ... )
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For a while my favorite S6 goal was "save Bobby". Crowley does have his soul hostage and demons do lie. ;)
...is to have Adam back to temporarily 'replace' the missing Winchester until the resolution in s6.
I love this idea! Even though he's half a Winchester, he's still half a Winchester!
Return of Jesse, the anti-Christ. There's just no way to justify having introduced this character unless he gets to pop in at the end.
I agree. I still have a hard time with that episode. I felt like introducing Jesse created an easy way to tie up the Apocalypse without affording Sam and Dean active roles. Jesse swooping in and doing *something* could be provide a really unsatisfying end. But conversely, Jesse not showing up all just makes me frown at that episode even harder.
was she dead or was she [Meg] just locked down?She was still screaming when the scene ended, so it's debatable what actually happened to her (if she died or not). ( ... )
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